also found at www.carolrpt.com
Handbook of MIDI Player Tools 2011
compiled by
Carol Beigel, Registered Piano Technician
June 2011
MIDI Players
Pianocorder, Pianocorder Library, PianoDisc, QRS
Pianomation, Yamaha Disklavier,
Advice on Buying a Disklavier,
High Resolution MIDI Players and LX Software,
Live Performance LX
Connecting a MIDI Player to a Computer
Hardware Considerations, Software
Considerations, Trouble Shooting a Computer Installation
Connecting a MIDI Player to a Network
Connecting to the
Internet,
Streaming Internet Radio that Plays your Piano,
Connecting to a Home Network,
Wireless Home Network Connections,
Connection of a MIDI Player Without An Ethernet Port,
Remote Controlling a MIDI Player
Managing Disks and Drives
Floppy Disks,
Formatting Floppy Disks,
Making Back-Up Copies,
Memory Disks,
Replacing Floppy Disk Drives,
Modifying a PC Drive To
Work on a Disklavier,
Bypassing The Floppy Disk
Drive,
Backing-Up Flash Memory
and Hard Drives,
Creating a Boot Floppy for
Updating the Mark IV,
Yamaha USB Floppy Disk Drive,
Difference between MIDI and Audio CDs
Music File Formats
How Digital Audio files differ from MIDI files, MIDI file
formats, Piano E-Rolls
Working with
MIDI Files
Editing MIDI
files,
Editing High Resolution Files,
Volume Control,
Printing
sheet music from MIDI files,
Setting-up
your MIDI Player to play MIDI files,
Music Files on the Internet,
Creating Playlists,
Recording
MIDI Files,
Creating MIDI CDs, Converting MIDI to Audio, Links to finding MIDI files
on the internet
Working
with Audio Files - Making Recordings of
Your MIDI Player
Digital Audio Recording with Microphones, Portable
Digital Audio Recorders, Editing and Enhancing Digital Audio Recordings, Examples of Different
Audio/Editing Methods
Music Software for MIDI Players
Disk and file copy utilities, MIDI
Sequencer Software,
Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs),
Virtual Pianos,
Media Player Software
for Creating Playlists,
Music education Software,
Notation and Scoring Software,
Transcription Software
- Converting Audio to MIDI
The original 2003 version of MIDI Player Tools
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